2010 Photo Contest, Arts and Entertainment, 1st prize
Photographer

Kitra Cahana

Colors magazine

26 June, 2009

Arianna Desjardin (19). The Rainbow Gathering is an annual festival that takes place around the Fourth of July holiday weekend in a different American national park each year. Part of the point is to celebrate inclusiveness and pray for world peace. The festival attracts hundreds of teenage runaways and travelers who are nicknamed 'The Dirty Kids'. The 2009 Gathering was held in the Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico.

About the photographer

Kitra Cahana

Kitra Cahana (24) is a Canadian documentary photographer who had an early start in her career when, aged 17, one of her photographs of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza landed ...

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